torturess

English

Etymology

torturer +‎ -ess

Noun

torturess (plural torturesses)

1. A female torturer.
   • 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari:

     […] like Masoch himself in his personal life, draw up quasi-legal documents granting specific powers to the torturess for a certain length of time.

   • 2003, David Cotter, James Joyce and the Perverse Ideal:

     Furthermore, sadism and masochism do not meet somewhere in the middle. The masochist does not want a sadistic torturess […]

   • 2005, Catherine Constable, Thinking in Images:

     The gulf between the female characters and their performance as the torturess, for example Wanda's reincarnation as the titular Venus in furs […]